Selling military goods to the United States

Kelsey Gallagher Analysis and Commentary, Conventional Weapons, Featured, Ploughshares Monitor

The Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC), an independently operated Crown corporation, arranges contracts between Canadian manufacturers and foreign governments. Between 60 and 70 per cent of these contracts involve military goods, making the CCC Canada’s largest arms broker.

The Canadian Commercial Corporation: Not yet a protector of human rights

Chris Earle Ploughshares Monitor

Canada’s accession to the Arms Trade Treaty last year necessitated some welcome changes to Canada’s arms-control policies. But it appears that the export regime’s human-rights protections are still flawed. In this article, we focus on the activities of the Canadian Commercial Corporation.

Canada’s top five arms contracts to the U.S. – 2015-2020

Kelsey Gallagher Analysis and Commentary, Conventional Weapons, Featured, News

The most recently released federal records indicates that Canada transferred over $2-billion CAD in military exports to customers around the world in 2018. Left unpublished are the vast military exports …

What we know about the $14.8-billion deal to provide Canadian-made military equipment to Saudi Arabia

Cesar Jaramillo Conventional Weapons

Author Cesar Jaramillo Published in The Ploughshares Monitor Volume 36 Issue 3 Autumn 2015 10 Facts The largest arms exports contract in Canadian history will see Canadian-made military equipment shipped to one of …

Trading principles: How Canada’s pursuit of military exports has left a trail of secrecy and lax standards

Cesar Jaramillo Conventional Weapons

Briefing 15-1 Published February 5, 2015 Author Cesar Jaramillo On paper, Canada has “some of the strongest export controls in the world” (FATDC 2014). However, even if the provisions of Canada’s …